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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A05817Enhances sentences for certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds; relates to the availability of certain records of juvenile delinquents or youthful offenders; relates to annual earnings limitations for certain retired police officers employed by a school district or a board of cooperative educational services; adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community and state to consideration for whether to fix a securing order, including residence, employment, enrollment with an educational institution, and immediate family; allows courts to hold a pre-trial community safety and well-being hearing; relates to the court's consideration of the existence of extraordinary circumstances and significant physical injury in determining whether to remove adolescent offenders to family court; defines such terms; provides factors for the court's consideration of whether extraordinary circumstances exist; exempts adolescent offenders who were illegally in possession of a loaded firearm from those authorized to be removed to family court; modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree.
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FirearmsotherAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Enhances criminal sentences for many weapons and firearms offenses when committed on or within 5000 feet of school grounds, increasing penalties for illegal possession, manufacture, sale, and related acts.
Matters occurring while on or within five thousand feet of school grounds, as defined in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of this chapter, shall result in the following enhancement of such sentence:
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Firearmsred flag erpoAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Expands the factors a court must consider when deciding on a temporary extreme risk protection order to include community safety and well-being, time elapsed, respondent's age, mental health evaluations, and a definition of 'recent' acts, making such orders more likely in some cases.
In considering the factors under this subdivision, the court shall consider: (i) the time that has elapsed since the occurrence of such act or acts (ii) the age of the person at the time of the occurrence of such act or acts; and (iii) the community safety and well-being of all residents of the state.
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Firearmsstorage minorsAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Enhances the sentence for offenses under section 265.50 relating to failure to safely store rifles, shotguns and firearms in the second degree when committed near school grounds, increasing penalties for unsafe storage.
For offenses committed under section 265.50 of this chapter relating to failure to safely store rifles, shotguns and firearms in the second degree, the sentence shall reflect a misdemeanor;
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Firearmsweapon accessory restrictionsAI label
↓Restricts gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Enhances sentences for offenses involving manufacture, transport, or disposal of machine-guns, assault weapons, large capacity ammunition feeding devices, rapid-fire modification devices, silencers, and undetectable firearms when committed near school grounds.
For offenses committed under subdivision one, two, or three of section 265.10 of this chapter relating to the manufacture, transport, shipping, or disposing of a machine-gun, assault weapon, large capacity ammunition feeding device or disguised gun, or the transporting, shipping or disposing of a firearm silencer, the sentence shall reflect a class C felony;
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Immigration enforcementotherAI label
=No change to immigration enforcementmodel confidence 60%
Adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community, state, and/or county (including residence, employment, enrollment with an educational institution, and immediate family) as a factor in determining whether to fix a securing order, which can influence pretrial release decisions but does not add,
whether the principal has two or more identifiable ties to the community, state, and/or county, including, but not limited to: (i) residence; (ii) employment; (iii) enrollment with an educational institution; (iv) immediate family.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily enhances criminal penalties for numerous firearms and weapons offenses (under Penal Law Article 265) when committed on or near school grounds, directly restricting firearms access and use in those areas via higher felony classifications. It also modifies extreme risk protection order (red-flag) considerations to include community safety factors, which can lead to more orders. Provisions on safe storage and weapon accessories near schools further restrict. Changes to juvenile records, pretrial hearings, adolescent offender removal (including barring removal for illegal loaded
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